How Safety Can Undermine Creativity

Teaching the Future Radiologist: TED-Inspired Radiology Didactics

TED (acronym for technology, entertainment and design) conferences are an astonishingly successful modern-day platform for "ideas worth spreading". These continue to engage, enlighten and entertain an ever-expanding audience base. TED speakers highlight simple yet relevant ideas, often challenging entrenched perspectives and proposing hitherto unexplored solutions. In this perspective, the authors propose modeling some aspects of Radiology didactics along certain fundamental principles of TED and outline techniques to accomplish this. We overview how this shift can engage diverse learners and enhance retention of key information. We include evidence on such pedagogical techniques boosting learners' working memory and providing strategies for creative problem solving. Finally, we caution educators against criticisms of the TED format, including prioritizing style over content, "dumbing down" information to make it fit a prescribed format and sometimes offering insufficient scientific rigor.

Trust and Nursing: Delivering Effective Change Management and Driving a Culture of Innovation

Trust is foundational for all interpersonal communication and activities in an increasingly networked and interdependent world. Trust is also essential to the effective delivery of health care and for building collegial environments rich in innovation and readily adaptable to change. As the world's most trusted profession and vested peer collaborators across interprofessional health care teams, nurses are uniquely qualified to shepherd change and foster an innovation mindset across organizations and systems. Innovation requires creative teams that are appropriately resourced and supported, and team-based innovation requires time, space, and safety for groups to realize their full potential and maximize contributions. Appropriate staffing, resourcing, internal engagement, and external partnerships are essential to successfully conceive, launch, sustain, and deliver change initiatives that successfully challenge the status quo. Diverse teams are vital to enhancing the performance, effectiveness, and delivery of change and innovation. Effective change management and innovation practices require courage and imagination, skills that nurses have long possessed. Nurses are uniquely equipped to champion human-centered design through all phases of innovation while bringing knowledge of patients and communities to bear in ways that deliver innovation, are respectful of challenges, and mindful of opportunities to strengthen individuals and communities.

Leadership for continuous improvement in healthcare during the time of COVID-19

Designing safe, effective, efficient, equitable, and person-centred services normally takes some time and a great deal of stakeholder engagement and shared understanding to gain traction. This year has seen a significant acceleration of these activities plus new organisational and clinical collaborations and rapid cycle learning systems as a result of the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic response. Whether it is a WhatsApp group where clinician's share their real-time understanding of a new disease or a collaboration of manufacturing organisations and clinicians to develop new/more equipment, change and innovation are working at an accelerating pace. We have built upon the NHS leadership guide we used in the College's leadership development programme and 2019 webinars, Developing People, Improving Care. We explain how using the guide and new evidence in support of the approach along with the learning from 2020 could ensure that excellent innovations and ways of working remain while others are adapted as the crisis evolves to a new normal. Our intention is to provide a road map and personal and team strategies that will deliver ongoing and strong clinical leadership as well as improved quality of care.